Pharmacology

Catalog description

This seminar provides the student with the basic tools to predict changes in a patient's responses to medications as a result of receiving therapeutic intervention, reviews the pathology of a number of disease states, explains the pharmaceutical intervention associated with those disease states, and reviews the effects of pharmaceutical interventions and their impact on the rehabilitation process. This course will emphasize the importance of understanding the effects of a patient's medications and pathological state during rehabilitation. Students will be required to write an analysis of the effect of a category of drugs on a patient population of their choice, including how the category of drugs can enhance, detract, or replace the effects of rehabilitation interventions.